Tracing the Dislocation of a Sinti Family in a Genocidal Context: the R165 Collection of the German Federal Archives

The latest EHRI Blogpost, written by EHRI fellow Théophile Leroy, introduces a collection held at the German Bundesarchiv of importance for the Sinti and Roma genocide.

Racial research conducted by the Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle from the late 1930s was used by the criminal police authorities to identify and deport individuals labeled as “Gypsies” and to achieve the Sinti and Roma genocide. The post follows the story of a Rhineland Sinti family and maps their persecution trajectories.

November 14-16, 2022 | Tel Aviv University, Israel 

You are invited to register for In-Person or Online Participation in the International Conference 70 Years of Holocaust Compensation and Restitution, organised by EHRI partner Yad Vashem, and Tel Aviv University, the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and supported by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). 

Please find the programme and registration here.

Starting immediately, 30 hours/week | Limited until 30 September 2024

Application deadline: 6 November 2022

EHRI is a multinational consortium aiming to develop a sustainable, state-of-the-art research infrastructure for European Holocaust research, while working to integrate and link up the repositories and expertise of archives, libraries, museums, memorials, and research institutions holding Holocaust-related sources. EHRI is implemented at the international level through several Horizon 2020 projects and in Austria at the national level through EHRI-AT, a third project funded by the BMBWF (The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research).

On October 3-7, 2022, the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe co-organized the EHRI online seminar "Documenting the War. Past and Present". Initially, the seminar was designed to focus on the history of the Lviv ghetto and public outreach approaches using digital mapping and storytelling tools. However, because of the new realities in Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, we decided to change its framework. The seminar focused on the challenges of documenting, researching and teaching the history of the Holocaust and World War II against the background of living, witnessing, and documenting the Russian war against Ukraine.